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Tracklisting & More Information
An acetate is a transitional stage between the master tape and the finished vinyl record.
Originally acetates were used for home recording in the days before tape recorders, but since the advent of cassette tape & CDR are now no longer used for providing bands & their entourage copies of today's studio efforts. A machine actually cuts the grooves into the acetate like a lathe.
The acetate is used to assess whether the music has been successfully transferred to disc. It is checked by the sound engineer. There may be only one copy made of a particular recording, sometimes more are cut and sent to the studio and band members for approval.
This comes before making the master, and allows the sound to be checked without great expense.
It is unusual for more than a dozen to be manufactured, so from the collector's point of view an acetate is a rare find indeed! If the recording is rejected the acetate may be the only record that survives. The rejected cut may simply be poor quality, however the artist may have opted to use a different take of the song, if so, the acetate becomes much more precious.
An incredible find - possibly unique - and certainly one of only a handful.
The label is clean with no paper loss or other writing other than the studio annotation. The disc itself shows moderate to heavy scuffing over most of the surface area with a small section of residue to the beginning which causes a little distortion to the start of the track, however playback confirms only light ambient noise in the main part.
A far from mint example, however quite possibly one of a mere few left on the planet after fifty years. A nice piece of Sixties psychedelic history.
ACETATE
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